BRIMLEY — The Engadine coaching staff made sure workhorse running back Victor Collins had extra-long cleats to battle the expected mud at Brimley's Dick Amble Field on Friday. After all, this annual rivalry isn't called the Weather Bowl for nothing. And Collins wanted nothing more to get in the mud, straight up the middle of Brimley's defense.

"I love it," Collins said. "It's the best thing ever. To get the ball in your hands and just go in there and hit somebody, there's not any better feeling in the world."

Maybe winning the Eagles' eighth-straight Weather Bowl with a 39-15 win. Maybe getting the ball 25 times and rushing for 228 yards and three TDs. Maybe getting a second shot at the state's top 8-player team in Cedarville during the playoffs next week.

Nope. Running down after speaking with a reporter after the game and jumping in a gigantic mud puddle with his teammates.

"This is the greatest Weather Bowl I've ever played in, right here," Collins said. "It's the greatest experience, by far, just being with this team. It really is one big family."

Collins isn't a big bruiser — he's listed at just 5-foot-8, 155 pounds. He has decent open-field speed, but nobody would mistake him for a track star. What he does do is go between the tackles and run through defenders.

"He doesn't get the credit he deserves," Livermore said. "He probably would if we had a better record. That's what he likes the best, is just getting downhill and just start smashing people and pushing for extra yards. That's the way he likes to run. He'd prefer not to go around you."

The Eagles (4-4) will be getting a rematch with the Trojans (9-0) in the first round of the playoffs. The pairings will be announced at 6 p.m. today on Fox Sports Detroit. The Eagles were blown out 54-6 in the teams' first meeting in Week 3. Last season, the Trojans won the regular season meeting and the Eagles won the playoff game.

Engadine led 27-0 after the first half on a 71-yard Collins run on the Eagles' second play, a 4-yard pass from Robert Miller to Jeff Bomber, a 67-yard Miller run and a 37-yard Collins run. Miller had 106 yards rushing and 89 yards passing.

Donnie Carrick led the Bays with 97 yards rushing. Quarterback Shane Beaune was 7 of 31 passing for 117 yards and three interceptions.

The Eagles took a 33-0 lead in the third on a 36-yard pass from Miller to Bomber. The Bays got on the board with a 1-yard run from John Preville to make the score 33-7. Collins scored his third TD of the day from 2 yards out in the fourth, and Beaune found Brandon Carrick for a 23-yard TD.

Page 2 of 2 - The Bays finished the season 2-6 and outside of the playoffs.

"I know some of the teams downstate had some horrendously weak schedules, unfortunately, because this Brimley team isn't bad," Livermore said. "They're probably better than some of the teams that are going to make it."